Behav Brain Sci. 2012 Jun 15:28-29. [Epub ahead of print]
Prosthetic gestures: How the tool shapes the mind.
Source
Keble College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PG, United Kingdom. lambros.malafouris@keble.ox.ac.uk http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/academics/about/dr-lambros-malafouris.
Abstract
I agree with Vaesen that it is a mistake to discard tool use as a hallmark of human cognition. I contend, nonetheless, that tools are not simply external markers of a distinctive human mental architecture. Rather, they actively and meaningfully participate in the process by which hominin brains and bodies make up their sapient minds.
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